Gus Van Sant filmed My Own Private Idaho (1991) in Portland as a surreal character study about the friendship between two male hustlers. It is also a retelling of Shakespeare's story of Prince Hal, who appears in Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry V. Much has been made about Van Sant's seedy reframing of Shakespeare's "tavern world," as noted in an article entitled "Utopian Revisioning of Falstaff's Tavern World: Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight and Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho" by Kathy M. Howlett: